Chameleon tongues are stored inside of their mouths, coiled up like springs. When the chameleon is ready for a tasty meal, it rapidly uncoils and extends its tongue at a high speed (up to 13 miles ...

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body ...

The tongue is used to snap up insects and out-of-reach food, and can be up to twice the length of a chameleon’s body. Also distinctive are the independently moveable eyes, which allow chameleons ...

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The blue rod visible inside the lizard’s throat is attached to the chameleon’s famously long tongue. A muscle called the lingual accelerator muscle surrounds the rod, and its contraction stores the ...

There’s a story that the chameleon looks so bizarre because it was made by the Devil from spare parts. It is said to have the tail of a monkey, the skin of a crocodile, the tongue of a toad ...

The Meller's chameleon is the largest of the chameleons ... Their normal appearance is deep green with yellow stripes and random black spots. Females are slightly smaller, but are otherwise ...

When the chameleon launched its tongue, it would hit the glass, leaving some of its mucus behind. The researchers could then test its stickiness: on an inclined plane, they rolled steel beads through ...